Civil War News: Who Did What!
By Kurt Kuersteiner © 2008 Monsterwax
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A special thanks to David Saunders, son of Norm Saunders, for complying this list.
David concludes that Civil War News were pencilled by Bob Powell, and painted over by three different artists. They were Maurice Blumenfeld (65 images), Bob Powell (10 images) and Norm Saunders (13 images). Then Norm Saunders did final touch ups on the other 75 paintings, adding highlights to help unify the overall appearance. Even so, the difference in overall detail between Saunders's paintings and the others is still pretty dramatic.
The paintings Norm Saunders did are:
3: The War Starts (true story, except no one was killed during the Fort Sumpter battle)
6: Pulled from Safety
12: Bloody Combat
21: Painful Death
34: Wall of Corpses (true story, based on the battle of Fredericksburg VA, where 12,700 Yankees out of 106,000 were killed or wounded. They did in fact hide behind dead bodies of their comrades.)
36: Midnight Raid
38: General Grant (true story)
39: General Lee (true story)
44: Shot to Death
#45 The Riverboat Explodes
#49 The Explosion
#55: The Silent Drum (Based on true events, although a different name. Clarence McKenzie became a drummer of the Brooklyn 13th Regiment at 12. He was killed at Annapolis Md. and buried in Brooklyn's Greenwood Cemetery and is one of the most popular places to visit.)
#57: Hand to Hand Combat
The Paintings that Bob Powell did were:
#13: Dying Effort
#19 Pushed to his Doom
#40: Bullets of Death
#48: Smashing the Enemy
#53 Train of Doom
#64: Jaws of Death
#69: Death in the Water
#72: The Cannon's Victim
#77: Trapped
#86 Dynamite Victims
Maurice Blumenfeld did all the rest.